Motivational Quotes

Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

12.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

13.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

14.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

15.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

17.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

19.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

20.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

22.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

23.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

24.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

25.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

28.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

29.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

31.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

32.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

33.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

36.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

37.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

38.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

39.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

42.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

44.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

46.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

47.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

48.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

49.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

50.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.